We drove about 1600 miles in a loop from Portland to Cannon Beach and down the coast to Reedsport, then east to the Crater Lake in the Cascade Mountains, then NE to Bend Oregon where we visited friends and many sites like the Newberry Volcanic National Monument, Smith Rock State Park and Mt Bachelor. From Bend we continued NE to Mitchel and looped around the John Day Fossil Bed, which spans a huge area in the Oregon high desert. We continued north to the Columbia River Gorge and explored the waterfalls from Hood River to Corbett. The loop completed with a drive from Hood River to Mt Hood and back to Portland. Everywhere we went was spectacular, and the weather was perfect.
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